"-=Matt=-" wrote in message
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Why release these cards if they are inferior to existing models?


The bottom line is money. they need it, we have it, any product however
incrementally better gets the OEM contract and everyone makes out, except
the enthusiast gamer.

While the enthusiasts drive innovation and dictate mindshare, they do little
to the bototm line of a company except jeopardize it. Also, you are painting
with an overly broad brush, there are distinct advanatages to the newer
cards, and raw speed in all instances isn't exactly one of them [in the
mainstream market].

Look at it this way, it's not that the new cards are so bad, it's that the
older ones are so good.